"It is one of the signs of..." - Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Let every one mind his own business, and endeavor to be what he was made.”

“Rescue the drowning and tie your shoestrings.”

“There is reason in the distinction of civil and uncivil. The manners are sometimes so rough a rind that we doubt whether they cover any core or sap-wood at all.”

“People die, but books never die.”

“I am a product [...of] endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of any of them.... I had always the same certainty of finding a book that was new to me as a man who walks into a field has of finding a new blade of grass.”

“Classics which at home are drowsily read have a strange charm in a country inn, or in the transom of a merchant brig.”

“We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.”

“Be a little careful about your library. Do you foresee what you will do with it? Very little to be sure. But the real question is what it will do with you? You will come here and get books that will open your eyes, and your ears, and your curiosity, and turn you inside out or outside in.”

“Be awesome! Be a book nut!”